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03/08/2012

Amazon updates Cloud Player with scan and match audio upgrades, splits service into free and premium tiers

Amazon updates Cloud Player with scan and match audio upgrades, splits service into free and premium tiers: Amazon Cloud Player iOS






Those licensing deals Amazon signed with major record labels just paid off: the company has today updated its Cloud Player service with a scan and match feature that will automatically upgrade eligible songs in your iTunes or Windows Media collection to 256kbps audio files in the cloud. The new format will replace prior tracks you've uploaded (which will remain available in an archived folder) the next time users sign in, and Amazon says the entire process shouldn't take more than a few minutes. From there, all music you import in the future will automatically be matched in the same fashion so long as Amazon has the necessary rights to do so. If a particular track or album can't be matched, it will need to be uploaded manually.

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